Dayna Casey (AU/NL, 1988) I am a visual artist somewhere between research, writing, publishing, and graphic design. I am drawn to unpacking objects or symbols and using them as story-telling devices to help think through complex entangled political matter(s).
I spent two years at the Dutch Art Institute, where we roamed through Europe with an amazing group of people. Thorough guidance was given on artistic research around anxieties of sense-making, contextualised in the ecological crisis. Cultural critic Rachel O’Reilly guided me while looking into the patriarchal infrastructures and modernist scientific languages that produce and exploit doubt. It helped me think through what is at stake when thinking about pluralist feminist or interpretative “magical” art practices, how this can be exploited by the right, but more importantly emphasising the necessity of decolonial knowledge and perception. If you want a digital copy, let me know.CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
2018 – 2020:
Dutch Art Institute, Art Praxis
Roaming Academy, EU
Master of Art 2020
2019 – 2020
Critical theory Seminar with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Anthropology and Global Fantasy
Project group with Sepake Angiama, Nina bell F., Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons: All about my mother (on care, reproductive labour, the familial and the institutional)
School of Expressions: experimental project on knowledge other than the systematised – PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2018 – 2019
Critical theory Seminar with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Queer Theory and the Critique of Energy
Project group with James Bridle, Navine G.Khan-Dossos, Van Abbemuseum: Agency – Everyday practice and global power
Writing workshop Beyond Fictocriticism curated by David Maroto
2008 – 2013
Royal Academy of Art – The Hague, NL
Bachelor of Graphic Design
2011
Erasmus Exchange Programme, Visual Communication, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
2001 – 2007: VWO
RECENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS
2022
Upcoming year-long residency at Jan van Eyck post-academy
KABK World for World is Soil programme
External critic WDKA Honours programme
Fiber Festival 'Mutation', Amsterdam: talk on Wxtch Craft with Erika Sprey
Working on Well Projects writing piece for Publication
Working on Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas with Eline Benjaminsen, Sami Hammana
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
Nest Den Haag, every moment a junction, w melanie bonajo, Maaike Gouwenberg, Erika Sprey. Image artwork.
2021
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Fall Sessions
Fertile Imaginaries part of Hoops Purity is not an Option Climate Care reading group, The Rewilding Years: On a Nature Culture Learning Site Floating University, Berlin
Fertile Imaginaries reading on Radio Robida, Robida Collective writing broadcasted
Textile piece for Kasvio, Fertile Imaginaries: Oocyte Freeze/Donation at Kasvio, Food as Story-telling curated by Staci Bu Shea
KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
Artworks Bare Fruits for Georgie Sinclair and Rosie Haward – feminist queer literature podcast
Collective SpellZazie Stevens, Daisyworld Magazine #2
2020
MA critical theory thesis, Epistemic Anxiety: Disembodied Objectivity and the Oscillating Climate Sceptic – setting the stakes for a feminist quantum imaginary supervised by Rachel O’Reilly
Gossip and Joyful Militancy reading together with Marthe Prins, Diptych, Amsterdam
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water reading as part of Daisyworld Magazine launch at San Serriffe, Amsterdam
It Doesn’t Have to Taste Good to be Affective collective presentation with coop All About my Mother, Casco Art Institute, Radio Kootwijk
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water published in Zazie Stevens' Daisyworld Magazine
A queer rewriting of the Last Will and Testament with Anakin Xersonsky and Saskia Burggraaf, at Radio Kootwijk
Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water Aeroponic Acts, Kootwijk, Dutch Art Institute (Installation, performance)
2019
How do Bodies Read Together? performative installation and reading at Grote Kerk, Groede
Reading evaporated tears collective presentation with coop “Agency,” Parco Naturale Regionale Molentargius-Saline, Cagliari, Sardinia
Transitioning to (il)logics performative reading at Silent Green, Berlin
Terms of Now performative reading at Patronaat, Epen
2017
Next, Rising, Mood flags on show at Zabriskie Point, Geneva
Next, Rising, Mood in Held Together with Water at Le Commun − Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (BAC), Geneva
INTL, prints on show, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
2016
Things to Remember (Page Not Found) with Radna Rumping, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
I have worked as a graphic designer with and for: Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Stroom Den Haag, Nest Ruimte Den Haag, Spring Performing Arts Festival Utrecht, Dutch Art Institute, Studium Generale KABK, INSIDE master KABK, Zabriskie Point, One Gee in Fog, Erika Sprey, Georgie Sinclair, Rosie Haward, Aliki van der Kruijs, Anne Geene, Floris Schrama, Renny Ramakers, Hanne Hagenaars, Philip Vermeulen, Radna Rumping, Castrum Peregrini, Marthe Prins, Jan Rosseel, Woody’92 & Spekki Webu, Muriel Schouten, Indre Urbonaite, Nick van Tiem, Jonathan Hielkema, Auke Witkamp, Annija Muižule, Chloë van Diepen, Anne Kranenborg, Luka Karssenberg, MILLK, Eva Line De Boer, Caitlin Berner
Currently I am collaborating with Eline Benjaminsen on Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. We are unravelling financial slang and its etymological histories, revealing the absurd (super)natural ‘fictions’ that shape our worldly ecology. We do this together in our communal studio in the Hague. This project is expanding Sami Hammana’s initial lexicon.
My 2023 will be spent in Maastricht at the Jan van Eyck post-academy for a year-long residency, where I will most likely expand my work Fertile Imaginaries, a vessel for 92% Water. An upcoming writing piece for a Well Projects publication, will also feature this ongoing research.
Recently, I have just finished a series of three zines for the KABK Studium Generale series: An exploration of wxtch craft as a queer feminist liberatory practice, as editor, program touchstone and designer. Together with Erika Sprey and many others.
I spent two years at the Dutch Art Institute, where we roamed through Europe with an amazing group of people. Thorough guidance was given on artistic research around anxieties of sense-making, contextualised in the ecological crisis. Cultural critic Rachel O’Reilly guided me while looking into the patriarchal infrastructures and modernist scientific languages that produce and exploit doubt. It helped me think through what is at stake when thinking about pluralist feminist or interpretative “magical” art practices, how this can be exploited by the right, but more importantly emphasising the necessity of decolonial knowledge and perception. If you want a digital copy, let me know.
Here is a small grasp of recent projects, writings, and design work. There are small descriptions if you hover and more imagery if you click.
I work on commissions in graphic, editorial and publication design, for which you can hire me :-)
Here you can see a selection of commissioned publications I designed from 2013 until now..
info(at)daynacasey.com
+31 (0)6 4164 7070
Based in The Hague, NL
Roaming Academy, EU
Master of Art 2020
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017
2016
I have worked as a graphic designer with and for: Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Stroom Den Haag, Nest Ruimte Den Haag, Spring Performing Arts Festival Utrecht, Dutch Art Institute, Studium Generale KABK, INSIDE master KABK, Zabriskie Point, One Gee in Fog, Erika Sprey, Georgie Sinclair, Rosie Haward, Aliki van der Kruijs, Anne Geene, Floris Schrama, Renny Ramakers, Hanne Hagenaars, Philip Vermeulen, Radna Rumping, Castrum Peregrini, Marthe Prins, Jan Rosseel, Woody’92 & Spekki Webu, Muriel Schouten, Indre Urbonaite, Nick van Tiem, Jonathan Hielkema, Auke Witkamp, Annija Muižule, Chloë van Diepen, Anne Kranenborg, Luka Karssenberg, MILLK, Eva Line De Boer, Caitlin Berner
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, writing, installation (2020)
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, writing, installation (2020)
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, writing, installation (2020)
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, writing, installation (2020)
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, reading at San Serriffe for Daisyworld (2020)
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Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water, published in Daisyworld (2020)
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Things to Remember (Page Not Found), at Castrum Peregrini, for Radna Rumping (2016)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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For Nick van Tiem (2015)
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Wxtch Craft, co-editor and designer, with Erika Sprey (2022)
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For Things to Remember (Page Not Found), at Castrum Peregrini, for Radna Rumping (2016)
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Metaphors into the Fourth Dimension Book sculpture in collaboration with Yee Jin Sha, for Anne Kranenborg. (2015)
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For Things to Remember (Page Not Found), at Castrum Peregrini, for Radna Rumping (2016)
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Magazine in collaboration with Nina Couvert (2015)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
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Magazine in collaboration with Nina Couvert (2015)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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For Nick van Tiem (2015)
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For Annija Muizule (2017)
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For Annija Muizule (2017)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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The Artist, The Entrepeneur, The Leader. A Plea for Applied Collaboration. For Jonathan Hielkema. (2018)
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Metaphors into the Fourth Dimension Book sculpture in collaboration with Yee Jin Sha, for Anne Kranenborg. (2015)
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Things to Remember (Page Not Found), at Castrum Peregrini, for Radna Rumping (2016)
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Things to Remember (Page Not Found), at Castrum Peregrini, for Radna Rumping (2016)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
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For KABK Inside MA programme (2015)
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Made by Rain, for Aliki van der Kruijs (2017)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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Bachelor project, Dayna Casey (2013)
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For Jan Rosseel at Stroom (2017)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
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Ways of Understanding: Voodoo/Vodun, for Muriel Schouten (2018)
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For Philip Vermeulen (2017)
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For Philip Vermeulen (2017)
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For Philip Vermeulen (2017)
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For Nick van Tiem (2015)